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19/08/2026 … Comedian Olaf Falafel has won the (Some Guy Called) Dave Joke of the Fringe 2026 with the line: ’I remember thinking, as I taped a piranha to my boomerang,…
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
19/08/2026 … Unfashionable just a few years ago, character comedy is really having a moment in 2026, presumably as a result of its surging popularity on short-form video, a medium…
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
19/08/2026 … Ed Gaughan - the voice of Baron Silas von Greenback in the rebooted Danger Mouse – is good at accents.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
19/08/2026 … Lara Ciulli, one half of The Sisters Fig and a Chortle best newcomer nominee this year, has now teamed with a new partner Rianna White for a fresh project,…
Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin says progressives should stop playing the nice guy
19/08/2026 … Anger can be funny.
© Avalon / C4 19/08/2026 … Channel 4 has confirmed that Taskmaster will return at 10pm on September 3.
© Happy Tramp North No third series for Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh's comedy
19/08/2026 … The BBC has cancelled Scottish sitcom Only Child after two series, star Gregor Fisher has revealed.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
19/08/2026 … This story starts at Russell Howard’s stag do, but if you’re expecting to get any scuttlebutt on the 2019 Las Vegas shindig, you’ll be disappointed.
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